"Do You Want to Dance?"

The combination of ballet (which I almost always find boring), weak writing, and poor acting by Leslie Browne as Fonzie's girlfriend the dancer, is only slightly balanced by some nice moments involving Richie and/or Lori Beth.  So C-.

Notes:

• I haven't mentioned it before, but Joanie's use of the term "hunks" always feels anachronistic to me.
• Finally, LB has an interest besides Richie and cheerleading: ballet.  Well, better than nothing.
• Richie is proud of "his girl," which is cute.
• I like him standing up to Fonzie.
• I couldn't help thinking of Carmine Ragusa, who would later give up his own dance studio, to follow Shirley to California and deliver singing telegrams.  (He, too, would eventually try his luck in New York, but not until much later.)
• The only thing I remembered from this episode from the time was Al's visual joke with the mirror.